6640: Shania Twain and the Nashville Midriff War That Changed Everything
When Shania Twain showed her midriff in a music video, Nashville lost its collective mind. The industry that had no problem with men singing about honky-tonk infidelity decided that a woman's exposed ...
14 Jun 21min
6639: Why Ricky Van Shelton Chose Duck Hunting Over Stardom
Ricky Van Shelton was one of the biggest country stars of the late 1980s—platinum albums, number-one hits, CMA awards, the full Nashville coronation. Then he walked away from all of it to go duck hunt...
14 Jun 18min
6638: Pat Green and the Texas Music Movement He Built and Left Behind
Pat Green was the king of Texas country music before the mainstream knew Texas country existed. He packed dance halls across the state, sold hundreds of thousands of independent albums out of his truc...
14 Jun 18min
6637: Why Oliver Anthony Rejected Eight Million Dollars
Oliver Anthony was living in a camper on a friend's property when 'Rich Men North of Richmond' went viral and became the most-streamed song in America. Within weeks, he was fielding eight-figure recor...
14 Jun 18min
6636: How Nickel Creek Went from Pizza Parlor Prodigies to Genre Pioneers
Nickel Creek started playing together when Chris Thile was eight years old, performing at pizza parlors and bluegrass festivals with a technical precision that embarrassed musicians three times their ...
14 Jun 19min
6635: How Miranda Lambert Beat Nashville at Its Own Game
Miranda Lambert walked into Nashville as a teenager with a chip on her shoulder and a voice that could strip paint. She was louder, angrier, and more confrontational than the format wanted its women t...
14 Jun 18min
6634: How Mary Chapin Carpenter Shattered Nashville's Formula
Mary Chapin Carpenter was a Ivy League-educated journalist's daughter from the DC suburbs who somehow became a country music star. She didn't look the part, didn't sound the part, and wrote songs that...
14 Jun 19min
6633: Martina McBride and the Staggering Cost of Independence
Martina McBride earned 14 Grammy nominations without winning a single one. She sold over 14 million albums, tied records for CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, and built one of the most powerful voices ...
14 Jun 25min
